Making the Connection: Strategies for Working with High-risk Youth

Abstract

High-risk youth are “the disconnected.” Sadly, they rarely have family they can rely on. They rarely have a healthy support network to help guide them. They typically have difficulty trusting adults and perceive they are on their own in this world. High-risk youth struggle to be stable and, when involved in the child welfare system, use a disproportionate amount of resources, especially placements, resulting in greater vulnerability (Wilson & Woods, 2006). In general, they are hard to engage, slow to change, test frequently, and challenge one’s practice, ethics, and boundaries. These youth also teach you to become intensely self-aware and thoughtful and to profoundly understand that they are very unique and deserve to be treated as individuals. These are not “at-risk” youth; they are “high-risk” youth. They are not heading in a bad direction or on

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